[tlbuild] asy status

[simon at getthingsfixed.co.uk]

On Monday 21 April 2014 00:33:32 Karl Berry wrote:
> FYI, Bowman has released asymptote 2.25
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/asymptote/files), and I updated the
> sources in TL (Build/utils/asymptote).  If you feel like trying to build
> it, go for it.  We are the ones who find the compile errors, so no harm
> in trying now.  (Simon, I did not check the interact.cc madness, sorry.)

This time round interact.cc didn't need correcting. But I think he's removed 
the requirement for the cstring headers.

Made binaries and tested OK.

> For me on i386-linux, the build succeeded, but I could not install the
> support files -- I couldn't find the latex and context files he used to
> supply.  He also hadn't updated CTAN.  So I figured it was better to
> hold off until it's straightened out.
>
> Thus, probably better not to actually commit new asy binaries yet.

Tarballs in the usual place.

Simon
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